Financing sociotherapy for people with health insurance

Are you seriously mentally ill and unable to take advantage of medical or medically prescribed services independently? Then, as a person with statutory health insurance, you are entitled to sociotherapy.

Sociotherapy includes practical instructions that enable you to take advantage of outpatient medical and psychotherapeutic services. The aim is to strengthen your personal responsibility in such a way that you can manage without sociotherapeutic care in the long term.

Sociotherapy can be prescribed if it avoids or shortens hospital treatment or if it is necessary but not feasible.

For each case of illness, you are entitled to 120 hours of sociotherapy within three years. The health insurance companies conclude contracts with suitable persons or institutions for the supply of sociotherapy.